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Studying the studies – A systematic review of research on bilingualism and its effects
Date : 02-Jul-2018 - 06-Jul-2018
Location : Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Contact Person : Andrea Schalley
Meeting Email : < click here to access email >
Web Site : http://icl20capetown.com/images/WorkshopSummaries/5.-Studying-the-studies.pdf
Linguistic Field(s) : Applied Linguistics ; Language Acquisition ; Neurolinguistics ; Psycholinguistics ; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline : 24-Jul-2017
Meeting Description :
This workshop is part of the 20th International Congress of Linguists (ICL 20).
Since the initial studies on bilingualism were published in the mid 20th century, mostly describing its potential drawbacks, research on bilingualism has come a long way. The pendulum has now, however, swung the other way, with most studies appearing to present almost exclusively positive effects. Yet, those findings are not uncontroversial, given the substantial number of compounding factors and methodological limitations of the field. In addition, conference papers reporting on negative or no effects seldom get published in the scholarly literature.
While not denying that there are many positive effects of bilingualism, we feel that it is also crucial to demonstrate the objectivity of the research field, in particular given the importance of this topic for educational policy makers and teacher education in the current globalised world.
This workshop aims at exploring the body of knowledge on the cognitive, social-affective and/or economic effects of bilingualism across the life, as generated through scientific research. We invite researchers who have conducted meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews on such effects of bilingualism to share and discuss their findings.
Moreover, we are interested in in-depth discussions on methodological issues that on the one hand may have impacted on the research studies included in the systematic reviews and that on the other hand stem from the way meta-analyses and systematic literature reviews are carried out (e.g. lack of clear terminology, categorisation difficulties, potential publication bias).
Workshop Organisers :
Andrea Schalley (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Susana Eisenchlas (Griffith University, Australia)
For more information on the main conference, see http://icl20capetown.com/
Call for Papers :
We invite submissions of abstracts of 200 to 350 words. Information on abstract submissions can be accessed through this link : http://www.icl20capetown.com/index.php/2016-06-20-10-33-33/abstracts. Please link your submission to our workshop titled ’Studying the studies - A systematic review of research on bilingualism and its effects’ in the online submission system.